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Philippines ceasefire collapses as fighting continues
Fighting intensified on Saturday in the southern Philippines between government troops and rogue Muslim separatists, shattering a ceasefire almost immediately as it ...Taliban attack US consulate in Afghanistan
Militants launched an assault on the heavily guarded U.S. consulate in Herat, a city in western Afghanistan near the Iranian border.China sentences 3 to death over Xinjiang unrest
China has sentenced three men to death over a June attack in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang blamed on Islamic extremists ...Twitter begins plans for Stock Market listing
Twitter has announced it has filed paperwork with US regulators ahead of a planned stock market flotation.Dozens feared dead in psychiatric hospital fire in Russia
Up to 37 psychiatric patients and nursing staff are feared dead following a blaze at a mental hospital in north-west Russia this ...Indian court sentences four men to death in fatal Delhi gang rape case
Four men were sentenced to death on Friday for fatally raping a young woman on a bus last December in an attack ...ICC responds to Saint Petersburg G20 Leaders’ declaration
The G20 Leaders’ Summit in Saint Petersburg was far from the failure ...Three dead, thousands evacuated in Colorado flooding
Flooding in the western U.S. state of Colorado worsened Friday, with thousands of people in and around the city of Boulder forced ...Ex-IMF head Strauss-Kahn to advise Serbian government
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has agreed to advise the Serbian government and is expected in Belgrade next week, Deputy Prime Minister ...North Korea may be restarting plutonium reactor
North Korea may have restarted a nuclear reactor capable of producing enough plutonium to make one atomic bomb every year, a U.S. ...